Willow ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Today has been complicated. I left at 10:30am and didn't get home until 8:30pm, I have a friend crashing on my couch due to car drama, and I got a phone call at 9:30pm from my mom telling me that a bunch of my family members are coming to Chicago tomorrow and can they tour my office and take me to lunch?
And sure, I'm glad to see my family! But I generally like more than 12 hours notice even when I'm meeting people who are local.
I need a glass of wine before I go to bed.
silly dad -- two sticks of butter -- you'd have to eat all of them
So, you all may know, there's a pertussis epidemic this year in California.
yup. when I go back to my doctor later this month I am going to ask her about it. With asthma I just don't want it. and working at a library the odds are good someone will come in with it
With asthma you really, really don't want it.
Kat - he came and woke me up a couple of times. He ate some food he shouldn't have. He laid down on the floor beside my bed. Eventually he asked to do something that required I get up, but it had been a couple of hours at that point and I was ready to get up.
Is it worth pointing out to folks on my FB page that there are several Christian churches that are around the Murrah Building on Oklahoma City and that I've not heard of any of the victims family wanting them taken away out of "respect" for the victims?
You could point out that there's been an actual mosque in the neighborhood for 40 years...
Or that people usually say, "If there are all these moderate Muslims out there, why don't they stand up and say something, rather than letting the terrorists be the only voice of Islam, if they want to change Islam's image?" and now that actual "moderate" (whatever that means) Muslims want to build a center (which is largely modeled after the Y -- what can be more mainstream American than that?), the response is, "You're all terrorists."
Or that the community who actually fled for their lives, survived the attacks, and spent months and years rebuilding their lives voted overwhelmingly for the needed zoning. (Apparently they don't find a YMMA particularly disrespectful)
or you could just say "Shut your pie holes!"
eta: The "Fuckers!" is implied there, right?
Look at the photos. This neighborhood is not hallowed. The people who live and work here are not obsessed with 9/11. The blocks around Ground Zero are like every other hard-working neighborhood in New York, where Muslims are just another thread of the city fabric.